I never mentioned Gothic 3 regarding TW3 previously. Being open world doesn't mean much - Gothic 1 & 2 are also open world games. However, being bigger than Skyrim.. that's something else entirely. Reminds me of Bilbo: "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."

It's very hard to avoid such scenarios when you make a game that big. Skyrim is probably the only game that has managed to pull it off, and it only succeeded because Bethesda could pour virtually unlimited resources into it as they were well aware it could sell 10m+ copies. What RPG can honestly expect such numbers?